bs4.builder.XMLParsedAsHTMLWarning

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class XMLParsedAsHTMLWarning(UserWarning): (source)

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The warning issued when an HTML parser is used to parse XML that is not XHTML.

Constant MESSAGE Undocumented
MESSAGE: str = (source)

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Value
'It looks like you\'re parsing an XML document using an HTML parser. If this rea↵
lly is an HTML document (maybe it\'s XHTML?), you can ignore or filter this warn↵
ing. If it\'s XML, you should know that using an XML parser will be more reliabl↵
e. To parse this document as XML, make sure you have the lxml package installed,↵
 and pass the keyword argument `features="xml"` into the BeautifulSoup construct↵
or.'